Those curls around her face? Gave her an odd look.

Anyone?

It was the infamous "marcel" hairstyle that was briefly in fashion in the early 1930's (you will often see beautiful actresses like Barbara Stanwyck with that horrible hairstyle in some of their 1930-33 films). The running gag of the Hillbillies was that they were decades behind the times in terms of fashion and attitudes (they still watched silent films at the "picture show" back home!) so it made perfect since to give Pearl a marcel bob.

Jethrine's hair was even worse.

Let's face it, the Kate Bradley hair (Petticoat Junction's Bea Benederet role) was also really weird. A huge beehive giant blonde wig that sat on Bea's head. That thing just screamed "WIG!!!":lol:

Let's face it, the Kate Bradley hair (Petticoat Junction's Bea Benederet role) was also really weird. A huge beehive giant blonde wig that sat on Bea's head. That thing just screamed "WIG!!!":lol:



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I am ROTFL ing !! You are funny Hazel Anyday !! ;):lol:

But she wore that "mop" well, she still was a very lovely, nice woman as she was also as playing Pearl ! ;):)

Was it that we were young back than and didn't notice an obvious wig? :crazy:Or was it just common that wigs were popular back than and it didn't seem goofy if a woman had an obvious wig on??:lol::wave:

Wigs were definitely popular back in them thar days. My Grandmother had several big wigs. Her natural hair was sort of thin and poofy after she went to the hair dresser, but her wigs were thick and full (but in the same hair style as her own, just what her hair would have looked like if she had more of it). Even my Mom, whose natural hair was long and brown (like Emma Peel's from the Avengers) but I remember she had a wig that was short and Dutch Boyish. It had bangs and short hair that hugged her cheeks. At least her wig was a real different style from her own. I remember seeing it sitting on a white foam head, weird. I was never the same.:confused:

Even with the weird hair, I really liked the Pearl character. It's a shame she couldn't have made a couple of guest appearances each season after Bea departed for Petticoat Junction.

Totally agree. Cousin Pearl should have shown up at least once a season for the sake of continuity.

Pearl DID in fact make a really fast appearance in season 7.....~I THINK it was season 7 ~

Wigs were definitely popular back in them thar days. My Grandmother had several big wigs. Her natural hair was sort of thin and poofy after she went to the hair dresser, but her wigs were thick and full (but in the same hair style as her own, just what her hair would have looked like if she had more of it). Even my Mom, whose natural hair was long and brown (like Emma Peel's from the Avengers) but I remember she had a wig that was short and Dutch Boyish. It had bangs and short hair that hugged her cheeks. At least her wig was a real different style from her own. I remember seeing it sitting on a white foam head, weird. I was never the same.:confused:


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Yep!! My Mom had a wig too, very much the same color and style of her real hair, only better!!:cool:;) The wig was like she just "stepped out of the beauty parlor"! :cool: Being I was really young and didn't really know what the exact reason of the wig was ? I'm thinking she wore it when she was really in need of getting to the Hair salon AKA The " Beauty parlor"( as it was called than):D and her real hair was looking awful? :eek: Or the wig was for really special occasions where she had to look really good ? :)


But her wig wasn't as goofy and obvious as Pearl's or Kate's ! Or maybe it was !! IDK ?? :crazy::lol::D

The 1960's were awesome!!! ;):):wave:

Pearl DID in fact make a really fast appearance in season 7.....~I THINK it was season 7 ~

couldn't have been-season 7 was the 1969-70 season and Bea Benaderet died in 1968.

i find it hard to believe that a woman from "The Hills" wore a wig.

couldn't have been-season 7 was the 1969-70 season and Bea Benaderet died in 1968.

It may have been season 6 then, Pearl is shown briefly speaking on the phone to Jed.

What we have to keep in mind while the Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley's performer wore these bizarre head coverings atop her noggin, Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley's bizarre hairstyles were supposed to have been grown from their own scalps then styled in the same way Lucy Carmichael's mountain of red curls was supposed to have been grown from her very own head while her performer Lucille Ball was wearing these huge red wigs that concealed the wrinkle-preventing 'clamps'. I think,too, that both Miss Benederet and Miss Ball liked having not to worry about having to waste time repairing, resetting or rewashing their own coiffures but just plopping the head coverings on and being ready to go ASAP so they could just concentrate on the comedy at hand.

Even with the weird hair, I really liked the Pearl character. It's a shame she couldn't have made a couple of guest appearances each season after Bea departed for Petticoat Junction.

I missed her -and Jetherine too!! (What was really bizarre was in one of the later episodes Jethro got in drag for something - as if we could have possibly forgotten his amazon of a sister!)

Jethrine's hair was even worse.

Jethrine's "hair" was clearly inspired by silent star Mary Pickford's legendary curls which looked adorable on little Mary but comical on big ole Jethrine. Mary, of course, was the Clampetts' favorite movie star and mentioned in several episodes.